Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850
Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850

Author: Bronwen Douglas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1137305894

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Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).

After the Dreaming
After the Dreaming

Author: W. E. H. Stanner

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780733301995

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New edition of the author's 1968 Boyer Lectures. Two decades later, these essays on Aboriginals, their society and their vision of the world still inform and stimulate. This edition includes a foreword by H. C. Coombes. Other books by the author include 'An Aboriginal Religion' and 'White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays 1938-73'.

The Party of Fear
The Party of Fear

Author: David Harry Bennett

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780807817728

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David Bennett presents a ground-breaking historical analysis of the forces shaping nativist and counter-subversive activity in America from colonial times to the present. He demonstrates that in this nation of immigrants the American Right did not emerge form postfeudal parties of privilege or from the social chaos that bred a Hitler of Mussolini in Europe.